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Friday, January 10, 2014

Our Jewell

Sally Jewell, 51st US Secretary of the Interior

Sally Jewell, our Jewel, 51st Secretary of the Interior,climber of mountains, kayaker, CEO, mother of two,(“if anyone can do it, Sally can”)is giving us back our CCC.Creating work for our young people, women and men,planting trees, repairing trails, hacking away invasive plants,good work for our unemployed, work with great meaning.Connection with the land that feeds the soul.Thank you, Sally Jewell!Already securing a million bucks for the corps,she has her eye fixed on twenty.“I was scared of animals. Now I’m an animal freak,”says Keisha Alvarenga, feeding a raptor with a gloved hand.Clear vision! Let’s hear it for clear vision!Sally Jewell, our Jewel, don’t stop, move clean and trueto this great goal, our Conservation Corpsfor the twenty-first century, our youth back at work,our veterans back at work,a hundred thousand jobs!for our Mother, our Earth, our home.

Annelinde MetznerBlack Mountain, North CarolinaRead this interview of Sally and Keisha from NPR, January 9, 2014.

About Me

I create my art to celebrate and envision a world where the Goddess is imminent in all Her diversity, where women are safe, and where we live in gratitude to Mother Gaia, our beautiful home, the Earth.
The tools I’ve been given to work with are music and poetry, gifts which have led me on a a joyous and interesting life path indeed.
During my formal study of music composition, the Divine Feminine began to reveal herself within the texts I chose to set to music. After finishing my studies, I founded a women’s community chorus, Womansong, along with the New Start Fund for Women.
In the past decade I’ve produced multimedia concerts of my music and poetry, including solo, choral and instrumental music, dance, puppetry, spoken word and visual arts. I am now involved in publishing my works, directing Sahara Peace Choir and the Unitarian Universalist Choir in the Swannanoa Valley, improvising music with Playback Theatre, teaching private voice and piano, giving workshops, and writing commissioned works.
You can reach me by email at AnnelindeMetzner@gmail.com.